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Final Fight Final Fight - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Final Fight - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

Choosing one of three fighters, Cody, Guy or Mayor Mike Haggar, you make your way through the streets of Metro City battling the forces of the street gang MAD GEAR in order to rescue Cody's girlfriend Jessica the daughter of the mayor from Belger, the evil leader of the gang.

Final Fight was produced by Capcom in 1989.

Capcom released 228 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984.

Other machines made by Capcom during the time period Final Fight was produced include: F-1 Dream, CP System I, Daimakaimura, Capcom Bowling, Forgotten Worlds, Capcom Baseball, Area 88, Code Name: Viper, Adventure Quiz Capcom World, and Buster Bros.

Final Fight - Cabinet - Machine
Cabinet
(Contributed by: Mark McRobie)

Specs

Name Final Fight
Developer Capcom
Year 1989
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 7794
Class Wide Release
Genre Scrolling Fighter
Monitor
Conversion Class Capcom CPS JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings

Final Fight Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)

# Simultaneous Players 3
# Maximum Players 3
Gameplay Joint
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 [JumpFight]
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard
Control Panel Final Fight Control Panel Image

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Game Introduction

The game is set sometime during the 1990's in Metro City, a well known crime capital that has been ruled by violence and death for many years -- a fact which the newly-elected mayor and former Street Fighter plans to change. At the center of the problem is a huge gang know as Mad Gear. Mad Gear controls all the major criminal activities in the city. When they learned of Haggar's plan, they took immediate action to bring this new mayor under their control by kidnapping his daughter Jessica. However, when Haggar learns this, instead of sitting behind his desk and letting Mad Gear get away, he enlists the help of Jessica's boyfriend, Cody and his friend Guy to go on a rescue mission to track down the big boss of the gang, Belger, and rescue Jessica.

Game Play

You choose from one of three heroes, each with his own pros and cons. For example: Haggar is the strongest of the three, but he is also the slowest. You must battle several enemies until you reach the stage boss where you must defeat him to get to the next level.

There are three kinds of weapons: the knife better for Cody, the Katana better for Guy and a Pipe better for Haggar. Along the way you can pick up food to restore your health. Each of the three characters, Haggar, Guy and Cody have a special "death blow" move that will do great damage and knock your opponents to the ground. Do this by pushing both action buttons at the same time. This move does some damage to yourself too, but more to them.

Final Fight KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.10 (12 votes)

Fun Factor: 4.40

Overall Like 4.64
Fun (Social) 4.82
Fun (Solo) 4.18
Collector Desire 3.73

Technical Rating: 4.08

Gameplay 4.45
Graphics 4.25
Originality 4.27
Sound/Music 4.18

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

In one player mode, when the player loses all his lives, he will start at the beginning of the current stage after continuing. In two-player mode, however, if one player loses all his lives, he will continue at the same spot he dies assuming the other player does not lose all his lives as well.

You can skip the last battle inside the subway train. Just jump onto the barrels in front of the control console and wait for the train to grind to a halt.

A special ending is displayed if the game is completed on one credit. The special ending consists of all the programmer's names with picture icons, after which the screen turns black and says "My name is POM".

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Trivia

There have been several home versions of this game for the Super Famicom/Super NES and the Mega/Sega CD such as "Final Fight CD" and "Final Fight Guy", as well as two SNES-exclusive sequels called "Final Fight 2" and "Final Fight Tough" also known as "Final Fight 3" and an 8-bit Famicom/NES parody called "Mighty Final Fight", where all the characters are drawn in SD-style. There's also an upcoming Titan-based Vs. Fighting game from Capcom called "Final Fight Revenge" that features the cast from the original game.

An updated version of Final Fight has been produced by Capcom for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance. Dubbed "Final Fight One", it has some additional extras/secrets such as playable Street Fighter Alpha versions of Cody and Guy.

The characters from Final Fight made several appearences in the Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams/Street Fighter Zero series. Haggar and Jessica have also appeared in the game Saturday Night Slam Masters.

Despite claims made by the author of the book entitled "Game Over", the female enemies, Roxy and Poison, are NOT transvestites they are true bad girls. The fact that they are female can be shown by seeing Guy's stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2 and the official Capcom artwork in Versus Books' "Street Fighter Alpha 2 Strategy Guide." Apparently Nintendo of America thought that they were transvestites so they replaced them in the US SNES version of Final Fight.

This game was designed by Yoshiki Okamoto. Okamoto designed two games while at Konami: Time Pilot and Gyruss. He later went to Capcom where he also designed 1942, 1943 The Battle Of Midway, and the Street Fighter series of games.

Conversion

Many of the late '80s and early '90s Capcom games run on CPS-1 arcade boards. Some of these games are Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Street Fighter II, Forgotten Worlds, and Magic Sword.

Miscellaneous

The character Andore and all his clones Andore Jr., U.Andore, F.Andore and G.Andore were parodies of the now late WWF Champion, Andre the Giant. It was a suprise that Capcom changed Bison's name to Balrog in the U.S. version of Street Fighter II - The World Warrior, but left Andore's name unchanged here. Other characters such as Axl and Slash are parodies as well, being from the band Guns N Roses.

The Japanese version of Final Fight is mostly the same as its U.S. counterpart except that the Japanese version takes place in 1989 instead of 1990 and there is an additional scene in the Japanese intro after Haggar turns on the TV that shows Jessica wearing nothing but underwear! This scene was edited in all the non-Japanese versions of this game.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Final Fight Census

There are 14,717 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,455 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,291 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 325 known instances of this machine owned by Final Fight collectors who are active members. Of these, 45 of them are original dedicated machines. 51 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 229 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 11 active VAPS members with a Final Fight machines for sale. There are 10 active VAPS members with a Final Fight circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 9 active VAPS members currently looking for Final Fight. There are 3 active VAPS members looking for Final Fight boards sets.

This game ranks a 73 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 20 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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2015 3 28.75 38.33
2016 2 215.63 215.63
All Years 5 86.25 109.25

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